This month with Experience Preschool, formerly Mother Goose Time, we're learning about farms. We spent week 1 learning about farm animals, week 2 was about farms, and week 3 is about food from a farm.
We spent the day learning about corn with Experience Preschool. We started by using a sheet to make a parachute and crumpled up balls of paper to throw on it. We pretended the paper was popcorn and shook the sheet to make them pop off. All kids love playing parachute.
The complete preschool curriculum from Experience Preschool comes with all the materials you need for crafts, minus basic things like glue, scissors, markers, paint. The kids used bubble wrap to dip in paint and make corn kernels on the corn cutouts that were provided. There was also green paper to use to make the husks and corn stalks. Ronan loves to paint and after he finished his corn he painted the newspaper.
All good preschool curriculum come with math activities. Right now Ronan is just learning to count, so far he can count to 5 in English. He used the pig manipulatives to work on one to one counting. Elli did the harder math problems that were included on the story math cards this month. She was very proud that she didn't even need to use the pig counters to get the answers. After math, Ronan and Elli played with the pigs for a while, along with some other farm animal counters we have. I love that Experience Preschool sends new manipulatives in every monthly box. The pigs were a big hit, even though we already had a set of them.
Ronan and Elli worked together to color a mini book about corn. Elli used the book to practice her reading, and Ronan was able to practice holding crayons the right way.
We finished up with some farm books. Experience Preschool gives recommended books for every day, that are great if you're doing a farm themed preschool curriculum. Unfortunately our very tiny library rarely has the recommended books, but I've food lots of farm books that we're reading this month.
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